The RIAA will continue to get away with idiocy
...as long as we continue to think of it as an RIAA problem. (Or a PRS problem, or whatever's appropriate to your jurisdiction. Which is sometimes the RIAA anyway, but that's a whole nother can of WTF.)
It isn't. It's a record label problem. It's a *recording artist* problem. Get the bad publicity to attach to the goodwill of actual moneymaking entities and all of a sudden people will realize, not just vaguely abstractly sort of be aware of, exactly who it is that's turning around and biting them.
So media outlets? Quit with the "RIAA's recent case" stuff. Call it like it is. Report things like "Today John Doe was sued for allegedly playing his radio so that other people could overhear songs like Foo Bar by artist Fred Baz, represented by QUX Recording Company."
The point of the RIAA doing this is so the public doesn't associate it with business they might stop doing business with. Don't let them get away with that.
(And let's just not even get into the stupidity that causes this.)
It isn't. It's a record label problem. It's a *recording artist* problem. Get the bad publicity to attach to the goodwill of actual moneymaking entities and all of a sudden people will realize, not just vaguely abstractly sort of be aware of, exactly who it is that's turning around and biting them.
So media outlets? Quit with the "RIAA's recent case" stuff. Call it like it is. Report things like "Today John Doe was sued for allegedly playing his radio so that other people could overhear songs like Foo Bar by artist Fred Baz, represented by QUX Recording Company."
The point of the RIAA doing this is so the public doesn't associate it with business they might stop doing business with. Don't let them get away with that.
(And let's just not even get into the stupidity that causes this.)